Optical fiber grating sensing method applied to small-size fire source monitoring

ABSTRACT

An optical fiber grating sensing method applied to small-scale fire source monitoring are provided, distinguishing two concepts of a spatial resolution and a perception resolution, under the premise of ensuring the spatial resolution of a traditional fiber Bragg grating sensing system, only increase the number of fiber Bragg gratings covered by a single pulsed optical signal without changing a pulse width of a pulsed optical signal, so as to improve the perception resolution of the system without increasing the requirements for a hardware circuit, and truly shorten an interval between adjacent fiber Bragg gratings. Improving the perception resolution of the system, which not only ensures the spatial resolution of the system, but also realizes the monitoring of small-scale fire sources; by adopting a simple feature extraction algorithm to obtain fire temperature information in different areas, the temperature detection speed of the system is fast.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

The application claims priority to Chinese patent application No.202010387542.4, filed on May 9, 2020, the entire contents of which areincorporated herein by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The disclosure relates to the technical field of small-size fire sourcemonitoring, in particular to an optical fiber grating sensing methodapplied to small-size fire source monitoring.

BACKGROUND

Optical fiber sensor temperature measurement technology has theadvantages of anti-electromagnetic interference, anti-corrosion, longdetection distance and large reuse capacity, so that optical fibersensor temperature measurement technology has replaced traditionalelectrical fire detection technology in many fields such as petroleum,petrochemical, electric power, and tunnel traffic, etc., and has becomethe mainstream fire detection technology. However, with the developmentof science and technology, people have a clear understanding of theinitiation and development process of fire. Fire detection technologynot only needs to be able to achieve long-distance, large-scalemonitoring, but also needs to monitor the temperature rising along thefire detection line intensively. In the way, early warning is given whenthe fire source is small, and the fire is extinguished in the bud.

The technology based on Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) temperature sensing isa mature technology in the fire detector market. The temperature of theFBG's center wavelength is sensitive to temperature to measure thetemperature of the area where the FBG is located, and it has asignal-to-noise ratio. High, fast response speed and other advantages.However, FBG can only sense its own temperature changes, and the opticalfiber between FBG and FBG does not have the sensing ability. Therefore,the technology is a quasi-distributed sensing technology. The detectingability of small-sized fire sources mainly depends on adjacent thespacing between FBGs.

The traditional FBG temperature sensing system mainly has two networkingmethods. The first networking method is a networking method based onwavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technology. Multiple FBGs withstrong reflectivity of different wavelengths are welded in series toform a sensor network. The interval between FBGs can be set arbitrarilyaccording to different situation, so FBG can realize the perception ofsmall size fire source, however, due to the influence of light sourcebandwidth and welding loss, the number of multiplexing of the system isonly a few dozen at most, which makes it difficult to achievelarge-scale long-distance detection. The second networking method is anetworking method based on time division multiplexing (TDM) technology,where multiple FBGs with the same wavelength and weak reflectivity arewelded in series to form a sensor network, since it is no longer limitedby the bandwidth of the light source, the multiplexing capacity of thesystem can reach hundreds. However. the interval between FBGs (usuallyon the meter level) is limited by the pulse width of the pulsed lightsource and the bandwidth of the hardware circuit, which makes itdifficult for the system to detect small-sized fire sources.

With the advent of online fiber grating writing technology, the FBGsensor network adopts industrial fiber drawing tower manufacturingtechnology to write sensor gratings continuously by multiple pointsduring the fiber drawing process, which avoids welding loss andincreases the mechanical strength of the sensor network. FBG sensornetwork can write tens of thousands of gratings on an optical fiber,enjoying high spatial resolution, large system capacity, long detectiondistance and high flexibility. Although the preparation of the sensornetwork has made a qualitative leap, in the sensor network using TDMtechnology networking mode, the demodulation system is always limited bythe pulse width of the pulsed optical signal, and it is impossible toshorten the distance between adjacent FBGs. It is impossible to realizelong-distance, large-capacity and high-density small-scale fire sourcemonitoring.

Therefore, the technical problem to be solved by the disclosure is toprovide an optical fiber grating sensing method applied to small-scalefire source monitoring, dividing the densely distributed FBG sensornetwork into several larger areas, and using pulsed light with a widerpulse width to obtain the overall spectral information of differentareas, which not only ensures the spatial resolution of the system butalso realizes the monitoring of small-scale fire sources light.

SUMMARY

The technical problem to be solved by the disclosure is to provide anoptical fiber grating sensing method applied to small-scale fire sourcemonitoring, dividing the densely distributed FBG sensor network intoseveral larger areas, and using pulsed light with a wider pulse width toobtain the overall spectral information of different areas, which notonly ensures the spatial resolution of the system but also realizes themonitoring of small-scale fire sources.

An optical fiber grating sensing method applied to small-scale firesource monitoring, comprising the following steps:

S1, engraving n FBGs with equal intervals on a single optical fibercontinuously to form an identical UWFBG (ultra-weak fiber Bragg grating)sensor network of large-capacity, an interval between adjacent FBGs isΔL, recording the effective detection length of the identical (UWFBG)sensor network as L_(fiber), and then L_(fiber)=n*ΔL;

S2, dividing the identical UWFBG sensor network into 2N regions of equallength, and m FBGs are distributed in each region, denoting a length ofeach area as D, and then D=m*ΔL=L_(fiber)/2N, and a spatial resolutionof the identical UWFBG sensor network is D, and the spatial resolution Dis constant;

S3, inputting a pulsed optical signal into the identical UWFBG sensornetwork, a pulse width of a single pulsed optical signal covers all FBGsin an area, recording the pulse width of the pulsed optical signal as t,and recording a period as T; then t=2n_(eff)D/c T>2n_(eff)L_(fiber)/c,including n_(eff) is a refractive index of a fiber core, and c is apropagation speed of light in vacuum;

S4, inputting pulsed optical signal to the identical UWFBG sensornetwork, reflection spectrum signals of m FBGs in each area aresuperimposed to form an overall regional spectrum signal;

S5, summarizing and classifying the overall regional spectrum,establishing different data processing mechanisms according to theoverall regional spectrum, and obtaining detailed temperatureinformation, so as to monitor a small-scale fire source;

On the basis of the above technical solutions, preferably, the valuerange of ΔL in S1 is from 8 cm to 20 cm.

On the basis of the above technical solutions, preferably, the overallregional spectrum in S5 is respectively denoted as feature 1, feature 2,feature 3, and feature 4;

feature 1: when all FBGs in the area are under the same condition, acenter wavelength of all FBGs in the area changes with the temperature,the spectra of all FBGs are superimposed into the overall regionalspectrum, and the overall regional spectral shape is similar to that ofa single FBG but a peak intensity is in times the peak intensity of thesingle FBG, further, the overall regional spectrum shows an overallmovement;

feature 2: when an area of only the single FBG in the area changes. thesingle FBG is recorded as FBG #n, a spectrum of FBG #n graduallyseparates from the overall regional spectrum and moves toward a long,wavelength direction, and further, a main peak intensity of the overallregional spectrum drops to (m−1)/m of an overall regional spectrum peakintensity under feature 1;

feature 3, when multiple FBGs in the area are affected by a sametemperature and change, the overall regional spectrum shows that themain peak intensity drops to (m−x)/m of an overall regional spectralintensity under feature 1, and x is the number of affected FBG, anintensity of a side peak increases to x/m, and the intensity of the sidepeak moves with the temperature;

feature 4, when multiple FBGs in the area change under a influence ofdifferent temperatures, the overall regional spectrum shows that themain peak intensity drops to (m−x)/m of the overall regional spectrumintensity under feature 1, x is the number of affected FBGs, and a shapeof the side peaks changes with the temperature of each FBG, a width ofthe spectrum of the overall region represents the size of thetemperature gradient of the FBG in the region, and an intensitydistribution of the side peaks is related to the number of FBGs ondifferent temperature gradients;

Further, the data processing mechanism in S5 comprising following steps:

S101, a system initialization: maintaining all FBGs in the identicalUWFBG sensor network at the same reference temperature C, then obtaininga maximum value of the overall regional spectrum of each area at thetime and a corresponding wavelength as the reference value of thesystem, the maximum value of the overall regional spectrum is denoted asM_(i), and the corresponding wavelength of M_(i) is denoted as λ_(i),where i represents a ith area, obtaining a sidelobe intensity on bothsides of the regional spectrum, recording a left sidelobe intensity asS_(Left), and a right sidelobe intensity as S_(Right), recording awavelength λ_(Left_i) corresponding to the intensity of a leftmost sgtimes S_(Left) of the overall regional spectrum and a wavelengthλ_(Right_i) corresponding to the intensity of a rightmost sg timesS_(Right) of the overall regional spectrum as a calibration value of thesystem. the value of sg is based on the system's calibration value;

S102, obtaining the maximum value MAX of the overall regional spectrumof area i and a wavelength λ corresponding to MAX when the system isrunning in real time, and comparing MAX with M_(i);

if MAX and M_(i) are equal, the overall regional spectrum of area ibelongs to feature 1, and the highest temperature value of area i isrecorded as T_(i), Ti=C+k*(λ−λ_(i)), and k is the temperature/wavelengthcoefficient of FBG;

if MAX and M_(i) are not equal, proceeding to S103;

S103, determining whether the maximum MAX of the overall regionalspectrum of the area i satisfies MAX≥(m−1)/m*M_(i);

if MAX≥(m−1)/m*M_(i), executing S104; if equator MAX≥(m−1)m*M_(i) is notsatisfied, then traversing a spectrum data of the whole region, findingtwo peak points MAX_(L) and MAX_(R), and executing S105;

S104, comparing the wavelength λ corresponding to M4X with λ_(i);

if λ and λ_(i) are equal, then the overall regional spectrum of area ibelonging to feature 2, and the highest temperature value of area i:T_(i)=C+k*(λ_(Right)−λ_(Right_i)), λ_(Right) is the wavelength at sgtimes S_(Right) intensity on the far right side of the overall regionalspectrum;

if λ and λ_(i) are not equal, the overall regional spectrum of area ibelonging to feature 4, and the highest temperature in area i isT_(i)=C+k*(λ_(Right)−λ_(Right_i)), the temperature value of other FBG isC+k*(λ−λ_(i));

S105, determining whether the sum of the intensities of the two peakpoints MAX_(L) and MAX_(R) is equal to M_(i);

if MAX_(L) and MAX_(R) is equal to M_(i), the overall regional spectrumof area i belongs to feature 3, and FBGs in area i are divided into twogroups, FBGs in each group are affected by the same temperature and thenumber of FBGs in each group is m*MAX_(L)/(MAX_(L)+MAX_(R)) andm*MAX_(R)/(MAX_(L)+MAX_(R)), obtaining the wavelength λ_(L) and λ_(R)corresponding to the two peak points MAX_(L) and MAX_(R), and thetemperature information of the two groups of FBGs in area i arerespectively: TL=C+k*(λ_(L)−λ_(i)), TR=C+k*(λ_(R)−λ_(i));

if MAX_(L) and MAX_(R) is not equal to M_(i), the overall reigonalspectrum of area i belonging to feature 4. the highest temperature ofarea i is C+k*(λ_(Right)−λ_(Right_i)), and a lowest temperature isC+k*(λ_(Left)−λ_(Left_i)), λ_(Left) is the wavelength at sg timesS_(Right) intensity at the leftmost side of the spectrum.

The optical fiber grating sensing method applied to small-scale firesource monitoring has the following beneficial effects comparing to theprior art:

(1) The use of ultra-weak reflectivity FBG in the identical UWFBG sensornetwork can greatly increase the multiplexing capacity of the identicalUWFBG sensor network. Therefore, the identical UWFBG sensor network ofthe present disclosure also has a small-scale fire source perception. Italso has long-distance fire detection capabilities.

(2) Dividing the optical fiber into several sensing areas of equallength, and the number and parameters of FBG in each area are the same,which avoids complicated networking methods and reduces the difficultyof demodulation;

(3) distinguishing the two concepts of a spatial resolution and aperception resolution, and the spatial resolution of the identical UWFBGsensor network is D, and the spatial resolution D is constant. The pulsewidth of a single pulsed optical signal covers all FBGs in an area, andpulsed optical with a wider pulse width is used to obtain information ofthe overall spectrum of different areas. under the premise of ensuringthe spatial resolution of a traditional FBG sensing system, onlyincrease the number of FBGs covered by a single pulsed optical signalwithout, changing a pulse width of a pulsed optical signal, so as toimprove the perception resolution of the system without increasing therequirements for a hardware circuit, and truly shorten an intervalbetween adjacent FBGs, improving the perception resolution of the systemand then realizing the detection of small-scale fire sources;

(4) since the identical UWFBG in each region has the same opticalparameters, the superimposed regional spectrum is still affected by theexternal temperature. Compared with traditional FBG sensing technology,the spectrum of the region contains more information(wavelength-Intensity-shape information), which is more conducive to thetemperature detection of small-sized fire sources;

(5) by adopting a simple feature extraction algorithm to obtain firetemperature information in different areas, the temperature detectionspeed of the system is fast.

For different small-size fire source monitoring scenarios, the presentdisclosure can provide detailed and accurate temperature informationbased on a reference value and a calibration value, or simply providesimple abnormal temperature (high temperature) data based on thecalibration value to increase the response speed. So as to realize therapid warning of small-sized fire sources.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an identical UWFBG sensing network oflarge-capacity structure in an optical fiber grating sensing methodapplied to small-scale fire source monitoring in the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of the characteristic changes of theregional spectrum in different situations in an optical fiber gratingsensing method applied to small-scale fire source monitoring in thepresent disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a schematic flow diagram of an optical fiber grating sensingmethod applied to small-scale fire source monitoring of the presentdisclosure;

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a demodulation system according to the 3thembodiment of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

In order to make the objects, technical solutions, and advantages of thepresent disclosure clear, the present disclosure will be furtherdescribed in detail below with reference to the embodiments anddrawings. The exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure and thedescription thereof are only used to explain the present disclosure, notas a limitation of the present disclosure. Based on the embodiments ofthe present disclosure, all other embodiments obtained by those ofordinary skill in the art without creative work shall fall within theprotection scope of the present disclosure.

Embodiment 1

The traditional FBG temperature sensing system mainly has two networkingmethods: One is a networking method based on wavelength divisionmultiplexing (WDM) technology, in which multiple FBGs with strongreflectivity of different wavelengths are welded in series to form asensor network, the interval between FBGs can be arbitrarily setaccording to needs, so the perception of small-sized fire sources can berealized. However, due to the influence of light source bandwidth andwelding loss, the number of multiplexing of the system is only a fewdozen at most, which makes it difficult to achieve large-scalelong-distance detection;

The other is a networking method based on time division multiplexing(TDM) technology, where multiple FBGs with the same wavelength and weakreflectivity are welded in series to form a sensor network. Since it isno longer limited by the bandwidth of the light source, the multiplexingof the system The capacity can reach hundreds. However, the intervalbetween FBGs (usually on the meter level) is limited by the pulse widthof the pulsed light source and the bandwidth of the hardware circuit,making it difficult for the system to detect small-sized fire sources.At the same time, due to the weak reflectivity of FBG (in order to avoidthe crosstalk problem between FBGs), the welding loss introduced by toomany welding points causes the signal-to-noise ratio of the FBG sensorat the end of the sensor network to be poor.

In order to overcome the problem of poor signal-to-noise ratio caused bythe weak reflectivity of FBG in TDM technology, multiple FBGs withstrong reflectivity of the same wavelength are welded in parallel on thesplitter to form a sensor network. Each FBG corresponds to a differentextension, which means in order to improve the reflectivity of FBGwithout introducing crosstalk and other problems, the serial network ischanged to a parallel network. Changing the series network to theparallel network can realize the detection of small-scale fire sources,because the arrangement of multiple sensing fibers breaks through thelimitation of space factors. However, the method for changing the seriesnetwork to the parallel network does not improve the demodulationsystem. The length of the delay fiber corresponding to each FBG is alsolimited by the pulse width of the pulse optical source and the bandwidthof the hardware circuit. At the same time, the loss introduced bydevices such as splitters also limits the multiplexing capacity of thesystem.

With the emergence of online fiber grating writing technology, thepreparation of FBG sensor network no longer requires multiple FBGs forwelding. Industrial fiber drawing tower preparation technology isadopted to write sensor gratings continuously at multiple points duringthe fiber drawing process, avoiding welding loss, at the same time, italso increases the mechanical strength of the sensor network, which canrealize the writing of tens of thousands of gratings on an opticalfiber, comprising high spatial resolution, large system capacity, longdetection distance, and high flexibility. Although the preparation ofthe sensor network has made a qualitative leap, in the sensor networkusing the TDM technology networking mode, the demodulation system isalways limited by the pulse width of the pulsed optical signal, and itis impossible to shorten the distance between adjacent FBGs in a truesense. The interval, that is, the spatial resolution (perceivedresolution) of the system is determined by the pulse width of the pulsedoptical signal. The shorter the pulse width, the higher the spatialresolution (perceived resolution) of the system, but the higher thebandwidth requirements of the hardware circuits in the system. It isworth mentioning that the spatial resolution comprising the minimumdistance between two adjacent fire sources that can be identified alongthe fiber length distribution of the distributed grating sensor, and isdetermined by the pulse width of the pulsed optical signal; perceivedresolution is the smallest size that comprising the fire source that thedistributed grating sensor can identify along the length of the opticalfiber. It can be seen that spatial resolution and perceptual resolutionare two concepts. In the demodulation system based on FBG sensing,researchers always default the perception resolution of the system tothe spatial resolution of the system. Therefore, the system has alwaysbeen limited by the pulse width of the pulsed optical signal and cannotachieve long-distance, large-capacity, high-density Small size firesource monitoring.

In summary, the networking method based on wavelength divisionmultiplexing (WDM) technology has only a few dozen multiplexes at most,making it difficult to achieve large-scale long-distance detection; inthe networking method based on time division multiplexing (TDM)technology, there are two problems:

(1) the interval between FBGs (usually on the meter level) is limited bythe pulse width of the pulsed optical source and the bandwidth of thehardware circuit, making it difficult for the system to detectsmall-sized fire sources;

(2) the perceived resolution of the system is defaulted to the spatialresolution of the system. Therefore, the system has always been limitedby the pulse width of the pulsed optical signal and cannot achievelong-distance, large-capacity, high-density and small-scale fire sourcemonitoring.

The embodiments of the disclosure based on time division multiplexing(TDM) technology, in order to solve two problems encountered in thenetworking method of time division multiplexing (TDM) technology. In theembodiments of the disclosure, a long-distance, high-density, andlarge-capacity identical ultra-weak fiber grating (UWFBG) sensor arraymade by ultra-large-capacity FBG online writing technology is used as asensor network to provide an optical fiber grating sensing methodapplied to small-scale fire source monitoring, comprising the following:

S1, engraving n FBGs with equal intervals on the single optical fibercontinuously to form the identical UWFBG sensor network oflarge-capacity, the interval between adjacent FBGs is ΔL, recording theeffective detection length of the identical UWFBG sensor network asL_(fiber), and then L_(fiber)=n*ΔL;

in the embodiment, the interval ΔL is equivalent to the size of the firesource, further preferably, the value range of ΔL is from 8 cn to 20 cm.

The beneficial effect of the step is: the use of FBG with ultra-weakreflectivity in the identical UWFBG sensor network can greatly increasethe multiplexing capacity of the identical UWFBG sensor network,Therefore, the identical UWFBG sensor network also has a small size.Along with source sensing capability it also has long-distance firedetection capability.

S2, dividing the identical UWFBG sensor network into 2N regions of equallength, and in FBGs are distributed in each region, denoting a length ofeach area as D, and then D=m*ΔL=L_(fiber)/2N, and a spatial resolutionof the identical UWFBG sensor network is D, and the spatial resolution Dis constant;

As shown in FIG. 1, the 2N areas are respectively denoted as area #1,area #2, area #3 . . . area #2N. Since temperature changes in differentregions will not affect adjacent regions, the spatial resolution of theidentical UWFBG sensor network is D, and the spatial resolution D hasbeen determined when the length of the region is set. Therefore, thespatial resolution of the embodiment rate D will not change.

The beneficial effect of the step is that the optical fiber is dividedinto several sensing areas of equal length, and the number andparameters of FBG in each area are the same, which avoids complicatednetworking modes and reduces the difficulty of demodulation.

S3, inputting a pulsed optical signal into the identical UWFBG sensornetwork, the pulse width of a single pulsed optical signal covers allFBGs in an area, recording the pulse width of the pulsed optical signalas t, and recording the period as T; then t=2n_(eff)D/c,T>2n_(eff)L_(fiber)/c, including n_(eff) is a refractive index of afiber core, and c is a propagation speed of light in vacuum;

in the embodiment, the pulse width of a single pulsed optical signalcovers all FBGs in an area, that is, the pulse width of a single pulsedoptical signal covers m FBGs. The sensing resolution of the identicalUNNTBG sensor network is determined by the number of FBGs covered by asingle pulsed optical signal. The greater the number of FBGs covered bya single pulsed optical signal, the higher the sensing resolution of theidentical UWFBG sensor network.

In traditional sensing technology, the shorter the pulse width of thepulse signal, the higher the spatial resolution of the system, but thehigher the bandwidth requirement of the hardware circuit in the system.However, the existing hardware circuit fails to meet the requirementsand cannot be truly meaningful. Shorten the interval between adjacentFBGs, thereby improving the spatial resolution of the system andrealizing the purpose of small-scale fire source monitoring. In thestep, under the premise of ensuring the spatial resolution of thetraditional FBG sensing system, only the number of FBGs covered by asingle pulsed optical signal can be increased to improve the sensingresolution of the system, and the pulsed optical with a wider pulsewidth can be used to obtain different areas. The overall spectruminformation, so as to realize the detection of small-sized fire sources,reduce the requirements on the hardware circuit, and truly shorten theinterval between adjacent FBGs.

In the traditional FBG sensing system, the requirements of the pulsewidth t of the pulsed optical signal are: t<2n_(eff)D/c, as long as thepulse width t satisfies t<2n_(eff)D/c, the two

FBGs before and after can be distinguished. In the embodiment, becausethe pulse width of the pulsed optical signal needs to cover all thegratings in each area, if the pulse width t is less than 2n_(eff)D/c, itcannot cover all the gratings in the area; if the pulse width t isgreater than 2n_(eff)D/c, it is impossible to distinguish the front andrear partitions. Therefore, in the embodiment, t=2n_(eff)D/c.

The beneficial effect of the step is that the two concepts of spatialresolution and perceived resolution have been distinguished in theembodiment, distinguishing the two concepts of a spatial resolution anda perception resolution, under the premise of ensuring the spatialresolution of a traditional FBG sensing system, only increase the numberof FBGs covered by a single pulsed optical signal without changing thepulse width of the pulsed optical signal, so as to improve theperception resolution of the system without increasing the requirementsfor a hardware circuit, and truly shorten an interval between adjacentFBGs, realizing the monitoring of small-scale fire sources.

S4, inputting pulsed optical signal to the identical UWFBG sensornetwork, reflection spectrum signals of m FBGs in each area aresuperimposed to form an overall regional spectrum signal;

The beneficial effect of the step is that since the identical UWFBG ineach region has the same optical parameters, the superimposed regionalspectrum is still affected by the external temperature. Compared withtraditional FBG sensing technology, the spectrum of the region containsmore information (wavelength-Intensity-shape information), which is moreconducive to the temperature detection of small-sized fire sources.

S5, summarizing and classifying the overall regional spectrum,establishing different data processing mechanisms according to theoverall regional spectrum, and obtaining detailed temperatureinformation, so as to monitor a small-scale fire source;

The beneficial effect of the step is that compared with a distributedoptical fiber temperature measurement system based on Raman scatteringtechnology, the embodiment uses an identical ultra-weak reflectivity FBGsensor network of large-capacity to replace the single-mode opticalfiber, and in the manufacturing process of the sensor network, too manycomplicated processing techniques are not introduced, and the detectionof small-scale fire sources is realized by reducing the distance betweenthe gratings. At the same time, in the temperature detection process,under the premise of ensuring the same spatial resolution, since thesensing information contained in the wavelength-intensity-shape of thespectral domain is more abundant than the information contained in aRaman scattering signal, it can further improve the small size of thefire source detection capability;

Comparing with the traditional FBG fire detection technology based onthe TDM+WDM+SDM composite networking method, the embodiment only adoptsa simple TDM networking method to compare the spatial resolution of theFBG demodulation system based on the OTDR technology distinguish fromthe two concepts of perceived resolution, using pulsed light with awider pulse width to obtain the overall spectral information ofdifferent areas, and obtain the fire temperature information ofdifferent areas by using simple feature extraction algorithms, which notonly ensures the spatial resolution of the system but also realizes themonitoring of small-scale fire sources. The complexity and constructiondifficulty of the system are reduced, and the robustness and reliabilityof the system are improved.

Embodiment 2

On the basis of embodiment 1, the embodiment establishes different dataprocessing mechanisms according to the overall regional spectrum, Beforeintroducing the specific process of the data processing mechanism, firstintroduce the overall regional spectrum, the embodiment including fourfeatures, which are respectively denoted as feature 1, feature 2,feature 3, and feature 4, comprising the following details:

feature 1: when all FBGs in the area are under the same condition, thecenter wavelength of all FBGs in the area changes with the temperature,as shown in FIG. 2(a), the spectra of all FBGs are superimposed into theoverall regional spectrum. and the overall regional spectral shape issimilar to that of a single FBG but a peak intensity is in times thepeak intensity of the single FBG, further, the overall regional spectrumshows the overall movement;

feature 2: when area of only the single FBG in the area changes, thesingle FBG is recorded as FBG #n, the shape of the regional spectrum ofFBG #n will change, as shown in FIG. 2(B), the spectrum of FBG #ngradually separates from the overall regional spectrum and moves towardthe long wavelength direction, and further, the main peak intensity ofthe overall regional spectrum drops to (m−1)/m of the overall regionalspectrum peak intensity under feature 1;

feature 3: when multiple FBGs in the area are affected by a sametemperature and change, that is, as the fire becomes larger, the numberof affected FBGs gradually increases. At the time, the overall areaspectrum will continue to decrease on the basis of feature 2, and theintensity of the side peaks will further increase, as shown in FIG.2(C), the overall regional spectrum shows that the main peak intensitydrops to (m−x)/m of the overall regional spectral intensity underfeature 1, and x is the number of affected FBG, the intensity of a sidepeak increases to x/m, and the intensity of the side peak moves with thetemperature.

feature 4, when multiple FBGs in the area change under a influence ofdifferent temperatures, that is, when the size of the fire source issmall and the temperature gradient in the space affects multiple FBGsaround the fire source, as shown in FIG. 2(d), the shifted spectrum isat a different center wavelength, but the center wavelength of thegrating closest to the fire source deviates the farthest. The overallregional spectrum shows that the main peak intensity drops to (m−x)/m ofthe overall regional spectrum intensity under feature 1, x is the numberof affected FBGs, and a shape of the side peaks changes with thetemperature of each FBG, a width of the spectrum of the overall regionrepresents the size of the temperature gradient of the FBG in theregion, and an intensity distribution of the side peaks is related tothe number of FBGs on different temperature gradients;

the data processing mechanism in S5 comprising the following:

S101, a system initialization: maintaining all FBGs in the identicalUWFBG sensor network at the same reference temperature C, obtaining amaximum value of the overall regional spectrum of each area at the timeand a corresponding wavelength as the reference value of the system, themaximum value of the overall regional spectrum is denoted as M_(i), andthe corresponding wavelength of M_(i) is denoted as λ_(i), where irepresents a ith area, obtaining a sidelobe intensity on both sides ofthe regional spectrum, recording a left sidelobe intensity as S_(Left),and a right sidelobe intensity as S_(Right), recording a wavelengthλ_(Left_i) corresponding to the intensity of a leftmost sg timesS_(Left) of the overall regional spectrum and a wavelength λ_(Right_i)corresponding, to the intensity of a rightmost sg times S_(Right) of theoverall regional spectrum as a calibration value of the system. thevalue of sg is based on the system's calibration value;

S102, obtaining the maximum value MAX of the overall regional spectrumof area i and a wavelength λ corresponding to MAX when the system isrunning in real time, and comparing MAX with M_(i);

if MAX and M_(i) are equal, the overall regional spectrum of area ibelonging to feature 1, and the highest temperature value of area i isrecorded as T_(i), T_(i)=C+k*(λ−λ_(i)), and k is thetemperature/wavelength coefficient of FBG; in the embodiment, thehighest temperature value of the area i is denoted as T_(i) or can beexpressed as T_(i)=C+k*(λ_(Right)−λ_(Right_i)), and λ_(Right) is thewavelength value at the rightmost side of the spectrum at sg times theS_(Right) intensity.

if MAX and M_(i) are not equal, proceeding to S103;

S103, deteimining whether the maximum MAX of the overall regionalspectrum of the area i satisfies MAX≥(m−1)/m*M_(i);

if MAX≥(m−1)/m*M_(i), executing S104; if equator MAX≥(m−1)/m*M_(i) isnot satisfied, then traversing a spectrum data of the whole region,finding two peak points MAX_(L) and MAX_(R), and executing S105;

comparing the wavelength λ corresponding to MAX with λ_(i);

if λ and λ_(i) are equal, then the overall regional spectrum of area ibelonging to feature 2, and the highest temperature value of area i:T_(i)=C+k*(λ_(Right)−λ_(Right_i)), λ_(Right) is the wavelength at sgtimes S_(Right) intensity on the far right side of the overall regionalspectrum;

if λ and λ_(i) are not equal, the overall regional spectrum of area ibelonging to feature 4, and the highest temperature in area i isTi=C+k*(λ_(Right)−λ_(Right_i)), the temperature value of other FBG isC+k*(λ−λ_(i));

S105, determining whether the sum of the intensities of the two peakpoints MAX_(L) and MAX_(R) is equal to M_(i);

if MAX_(L) and MAX_(R) is equal to M_(i), the overall regional spectrumof area i belonging to feature 3, and FBGs in area i are divided intotwo groups, FBGs in each group are affected by the same temperature andthe number of FBGs in each group is m*MAX_(L)/(MAX_(L)+MAX_(R)) andm*MAX_(R)/(MAX_(L)+MAX_(R)), obtaining the wavelength λ_(L) and λ_(R)corresponding to the peak points MAX_(L) and MAX_(R), and thetemperature information of the two groups of FBGs in area i arerespectively: T_(L)=C+k*(λ_(L)−λ_(i)), TR=C+k*(λ_(R)−λ_(i));

if MAX_(L) and MAX_(R) is not equal to M_(i), the overall regionalspectrum of area i belonging to feature 4, the highest temperature ofarea i is C+k*(λ_(Right)−λ_(Right_i)), and a lowest temperature isC+k*(λ_(Left)−λ_(Left_i)), λ_(Left) is the wavelength at sg timesS_(Right) it intensity at the leftmost side of the spectrum.

The beneficial effects of the embodiment are:

the embodiment provides a simple feature extraction algorithm to obtainfire temperature information in different areas, which not only ensuresthe spatial resolution of the system but also realizes the monitoring ofsmall-scale fire sources, at the same time, due to the simpledemodulation algorithm, the temperature detection speed of the system isfast.

For different small-sized fire source monitoring scenarios, theembodiment can provide detailed temperature information, or only providesimple abnormal temperature (high temperature) data to increase theresponse speed. thereby realizing rapid warning of small-sized firesources.

Embodiment 3

According to the national standard. GB16280-2014 “Linear TemperatureSensitive Fire Detector”, any sensitive part of the detector with alength of 100 mm can quickly detect high temperature changes. It can beseen that how to improve the ability of optical fiber fire detectiontechnology to monitor small-size (100 mm) fire sources is very importantin fire prevention work. On the basis of embodiment 2, the embodimentcombines a practical case to further explain the fiber grating sensingmethod of the application applied to small-scale fire source monitoring,comprising the following:

step. 1: writing 10,000 FBGs with a reflectivity of −47 dB and a centerwavelength of 1550 nm on a single fiber continuously. As shown in FIG.1, the interval between FBGs is 10 cm. Since each grating is sensitiveto the external area, the sensor network can perceive a fire source witha minimum size of 10 cm. At the same time, the effective detectionlength of the sensor array is L_(fiber)=n*ΔL=1 km;

step. 2: for ensuring the spatial resolution of the fire detectiontechnology, the location of the fire source is usually accurate towithin 1 m to be enough for firefighters to diagnose the heat source, sothe spatial resolution is set to 1 m, that is, every 1 m long area ofthe FBG sensor network is regarded as a sensing area, which is dividedinto 1000 areas, namely area #1, area #2, area #3 . . . area #1000, andeach area contains 10 FBGs;

step. 3: for distinguishing the signals of each area in the sensornetwork, according to the OTDR principle, the pulse width of the pulsedoptical signal input to the sensor network is t=10 ns, and the period Tis related to the total length of the fiber grating array, T>10 us. Inactual systems, 20 us is usually used to avoid the influence of multiplereflections in the fiber grating array;

step. 4: As shown in FM. 4, the system control unit generating a pulsedoptical signal with pulse width i=10 ns and period T=20 us through thecontrol of the drive module. The spectrum range of the pulsed opticalsignal is 1548˜1552 nm broadband light. When the pulsed light is inputto the fiber grating After the array is in the array, the reflectionspectrum signals of all FBGs in each area will overlap to form a new“area spectrum” signal as a whole, the new “area spectrum” signalarriving at the spectral restoration unit at different times, sodifferent areas can be divided in time. Then the restored regionalspectrum signal is sent to the data processing unit for finaldemodulation of sensor information;

step. 5: the regional spectrum contains information such as thewavelength, intensity and the cumulative shape of multiple gratings inthe region. Here, the fire scenarios that may occur in the actualproject and the regional spectrum under the corresponding scenarios aresummarized and classified, comprising:

typical scenario 1: When there is no external temperature disturbance,the center wavelength of the 10 FBGs in a single area remains the same,and the spectral intensity also remains the same. When the pulsed lightis input into the area, the reflection spectrum signals of all gratingsare superimposed and formed at a wavelength of 1550 nm regional spectralsignal whose intensity is 10 times that of a single grating, as shownregional spectrum 1 in FIG. 2(a), the spectrum is similar to the shapeof a single grating spectrum. If there is a fire source that changes thecenter wavelengths of all FBGs at the same time, the regional spectrumwill also change accordingly, as shown in the regional spectrum 2,regional spectrum 3 and regional spectrum 4 in FIG. 2(a), as the FBGcenter in the region as the wavelength shifts to the right, and theregional spectrum also shifts to the right;

typical scenario 2: when the area where only a single FBG is located inthe area changes, as shown in FIG. 2(b), the center wavelength of asingle grating increases from 1550 nm to 1550.2 nm, 1550.3 nm and 1550.5nm after being heated, since the other 9 FBGs in the region where thegrating is located are not affected, their reflection spectra remainbasically unchanged. As the center wavelength of a single gratingchanges, the center wavelength of the fiber grating gradually separatesfrom the regional spectrum, and as the temperature of the fire sourceincreases, it moves to the long-wavelength direction. Since a singlegrating moves out of the regional spectrum, the main peak intensity ofthe regional spectrum will gradually change from 1 to 0.9 with theremoval of one of the grating spectra, the center wavelength has been1550 nm, and the separated spectrum (side peak) will change from 0.1.The intensity gradually moves to the long wavelength direction;

typical scenario 3: when multiple fiber gratings in the area areaffected by the same temperature and change, that is, as the firesource's influence range increases, multiple fiber gratings areaffected, as shown in FIG. 2(c), as the number of heated fiber gratingsincreases from 0, 3, 6 to 9, the intensity of the original regionalspectrum will gradually decrease from 1, to 0.7, 0.4 to 0.1; and Theintensity of the removed spectrum gradually increases from 0 to 0.3, 0.6to 0.9;

typical scenario 4: When multiple FBGs in the area are affected bydifferent temperatures and change, that is, the size of the fire sourceis small, and the temperature gradient in the space affects multipleFBGs around the fire source, the degree of wavelength shift of each FBGis different, and they are at different central wavelengths, Locationand regional spectra show different intensity-wavelength graph. If half(5) of the FBGs are affected by different temperatures and drift to1550.15 nm, 1550.30 nm, 1550.45 nm, 1550.60 nm, 1550.75 nm, the mainpeak intensity of the regional spectrum will decrease from 1 to 0.5, asshown in the area spectrum 2 in FIG. 2(d), the shifted spectrum is at adifferent center wavelength position, so the width of the side peakgenerated will be very wide, representing the range of temperaturegradient influence from 1550 nm to 1550.75 nm, the wavelength of the FBGat the position of the highest temperature (at the small fire source) ismost affected, drifting to 1550.75nm; If half (5) of the FBGs areaffected by different temperatures and drift to 1550.15 nm, 1550.30 nm,1550.45 nm, 1550.75 nm, 1550.75 nm, the main peak intensity of theregional spectrum will decrease from 1 to 0.5, as shown in the areaspectrum 3 in FIG. 2(d), the shifted spectrum is at a different centerwavelength position, so the width of the side peak generated will bevery wide, representing the range of temperature gradient influence from1550 nm to 1550.75 nm, At the same time, the intensity at 1550.75 nm is0.2, indicating that two FBGs are affected at the same time at the firesource and the center wavelength has drifted to 1550.75 nm; in the sameway, the regional spectrum 4 represents that the FBG wavelength at thelocation of the highest temperature (at the small-scale fire source) ismost affected, drifting to 1550.75 nm, and two FBGs are affected by thesame temperature and drifting to 1550.3 nm.

According to the different regional spectrums under different scenarios,different data processing mechanisms are established to obtain detailedtemperature information, so as to realize the monitoring of small-scalefire sources, wherein the following:

system initialization: keeping all FBGs in the sensor network at thesame temperature of 20° C., as shown in regional spectrum 1 in FIG.2(a), where the intensity value is expressed by relative intensity,since the number of gratings in a single area is 10, a single FBGgradually drifts out of the spectrum below 1/10 intensity. Taking themaximum coordinate of the regional spectrum 1 as (1550.0 nm, 1), thatis, when the wavelength value is 1550.0 nm, the maximum intensity of thespectrum is 1, as the reference value of the system. Obtaining thesidelobe intensity S_(Left)=0.012 and S_(Right)=0.011 on both sides ofthe spectrum, and the sg is 1.1. At the same time, record the wavelengthvalue of 154.982 nm at the leftmost intensity of 0.0132 and thewavelength value of 1550.18 nm at the rightmost intensity of 0.0121 ascalibration values;

real-time operation of the system: obtaining the regional spectrumsignals of each area in real time and performs temperature detection.Take the regional spectrum 2 and the regional spectrum 4 in FIG. 2(a) asexamples. The coordinates of the maximum value of the two spectra are(1550.15 nm, 1) And (1550.45 nm, 1), comparing with regional spectrum 1,it has the same maximum value. Therefore, it is judged that these twospectra are typical scenario 1. Furthermore, the temperature values ofregional spectrum 2 and regional spectrum 4 are 35° C. and 65° C., andthe temperature coefficient is 1° C./10 pm. At the same time, take therightmost wavelength values of 1550.33 nm and 1550.63 nm at 0.9/10intensity in regional spectrum 2 and regional spectrum 4, and thetemperature values calculated by using the reference value are also 35°C. and 65° C.

When the heating temperature of a single FBG in the region is low andthe heating temperature is high, as shown in FIG. 2(b), the centerwavelength of a single grating increases from 1550 nm to 1550.2 nm and1550.5 nm after heating. First, the maximum values of the two regionalspectra are (1550.00 nm, 0.901) and (1550.00 nm, 0.9), relative to thereference value of the system, the intensity has dropped by less than1/10, so it is judged that the spectra of these two regions are bothtypical scenario 2. Take the wavelength values at the 0.0121 intensityon the far right of the two spectra as 1550.35 nm and 1550.64 nm,respectively. According to the calibration value of 1550.18 nm in theinitialization record, the temperature values calculated from the tworegional spectra are 37° C. and 66° C. respectively, and The temperaturevalue calculated according to the actual wavelength change should be 40°C. and 70° C., with errors of 3° C. and 4° C. respectively. Although inthe situation where only a single FBG is heated, the temperature valueobtained by the present disclosure has an error with the true value, butcompared with the optical fiber distributed Raman temperature sensingsystem, the present disclosure has a great improvement in performance.For the Raman temperature sensing system, if there is a small firesource of 40° C. and 70° C. with a size of 10 cm in the 1 m space, themeasurement value of the Raman temperature sensing system is the averagetemperature within 1 m. Therefore, the temperature values obtained are22° C. and 25° C. respectively, and the errors are 18° C. and 45° C.respectively. Causing the system to fail to respond to the fire source.Although the results obtained by the present disclosure have errors, theerror is only less than 5° C. The error can respond normally tosmall-sized fire sources.

When multiple fiber gratings in the area are affected by the sametemperature and change, as shown in FIG. 2(c), three FBGs are heated atthe same time. Through the data traversal, it can be obtained that thespectrum of the region has two peaks, respectively (1550.0 nm, 0.7) and(1550.5 nm, 0.3) and satisfy the relationship of 0.7+0.3=1. Therefore,it can be judged that the spectrum of the region belongs to the typicalscenario 3. According to the reference value of the system (1550.0 nm,1), it can be concluded that there are 10*0.7/(0.7+0.3)=7 FBGs heated by20° C.+1° C./10 pm*(1550 nm−1550 nm)=20° C., 10*0.3/(0.7+0.3)=3 FBGsheated at 20° C.+1° C./10 pm*(1550.5 nm−1550 nm)=70° C. Take thewavelength value of 1550.66 nm at the 0.0121 intensity on the far rightside of the spectrum in the region, and the temperature value calculatedaccording to the calibration value of 1550.18 nm in the initializationrecord is 68° C. with an error of 2° C. In the same way, when 9 FBGs areheated, according to the reference value, it can be concluded that thereis 1 FBG heated at 20° C. and 9 FBGs heated at 70° C. in the area. Thetemperature value calculated according to the calibration value is 70°C., and the error is 0.

The spectral data of the area that does not meet the above conditions isjudged as typical scenario 4, that is, multiple FBGs are affected bydifferent temperatures, as shown in FIG. 2(d). Take regional spectrum 2and regional spectrum 3 as examples. When the system obtains regionalspectrum 2, only one peak (1550.0 nm, 0.511) is obtained by searchingfor the peak. 0.511 is not equal to the reference value 1 reserved bythe system and is less than 0.9, so it can It is judged that there aremultiple FBGs in the spectrum of the region that are affected bytemperature, and because the spectrum of the region has only one peakpoint, the spectrum of the region will be judged as typical scenario 4.From the peak point, it can be concluded that there are 5 FBGs in thesystem at a temperature of 20° C., and the other FBGs are affected bydifferent temperatures, and through the wavelength value of 1550.89 nmand the calibration value of 1550.18 nm at the 0.0121 intensity on thefar right of the spectrum in the region, it can be concluded that thehighest temperature FBG in the region is 91° C., with an error of 4° C.According to the wavelength value of 1549.83 nm and the calibrationvalue of 1549.82 nm at the leftmost 0.0132 intensity in the spectrum ofthe region, it can be concluded that the FBG with the lowest temperaturein the region is 21° C., with an error of 1° C.; when the system obtainsregional spectrum 3, two peaks (1550.0 nm, 0.511) and (1550.75 nm,0.201) can be obtained by peak searching. Since 0.511<0.9 and0.511+0.201<1, the regional spectrum is judged to be a typical scenario4, in the same way, according to the reference value, it can be seenthat there are 5 FBGs in the area at a temperature of 20° C. and 2 FBGsin the area at a temperature of 95° C. According to the calibrationvalue, the maximum value in the area is 93° C. with an error of 2° C.

The beneficial effect of the embodiment is that for differentsmall-sized fire source monitoring scenarios, the embodiment can providedetailed and accurate temperature information according to the referencevalue and the calibration value, and it is also possible to providesimple abnormal temperature (high temperature) data only based on thecalibration value to increase the response speed, so as to realize therapid warning of small-scale fire sources. Although there is an error inthe method of using the calibration value, it is far closer to the truevalue than the result obtained by the distributed optical fiber Ramantemperature sensing system.

The objects, technical solutions, and advantages of the presentdisclosure have been described in further detail with reference to theabove-described preferred embodiments, and it is to be understood thatthe above description is only illustrative of the preferred embodimentsof the disclosure and is not intended to limit the scope of thedisclosure. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc.,made within the spirit and principle of the present disclosure shall beincluded in the protection scope of the present disclosure.

What is claimed is:
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An optical fiber grating sensing method appliedto small-scale fire source monitoring, comprising following steps: S1,engraving n fiber Bragg gratings with equal intervals on a singleoptical fiber continuously to form an identical ultra-weak fiber Bragggrating sensor network of large-capacity, an interval between adjacentfiber Bragg gratings is ΔL, recording the effective detection length ofthe identical ultra-weak fiber Bragg grating sensor network asL_(fiber), and then L_(fiber)=n*ΔL; S2, dividing the identicalultra-weak fiber Bragg grating sensor network into 2N regions of equallength, and m fiber Bragg gratings are distributed in each area.denoting a length of each area as D, and then D=m*ΔL=L_(fiber)/2N, and aspatial resolution of the identical ultra-weak fiber Bragg gratingsensor network is D, and the spatial resolution D is constant; S3,inputting a pulsed optical signal into the identical ultra-weak fiberBragg grating sensor network, a pulse width of a single pulsed opticalsignal covers all fiber Bragg grating an area, recording the pulse widthof the pulsed optical signal as t, and recording a period as T; thent=2n_(eff)D/c, T>2n_(eff)L_(fiber)/c, including n_(eff) is a refractiveindex of a fiber core, and c is a propagation speed of light in vacuum;S4, inputting pulsed optical signal to the identical ultra-weak fiberBragg, grating sensor network, reflection spectrum signals of in fiberBragg gratings in each area are superimposed to form an overall regionalspectrum signal; S5, summarizing and classifying the overall regionalspectrum, establishing different data processing mechanisms according tothe overall regional spectrum, and obtaining detailed temperatureinformation, so as to monitor a small-scale fire source; wherein, theoverall regional spectrum in S5 including four features, which arerespectively denoted as feature 1, feature 2, feature 3, and feature 4;feature 1: when all fiber Bragg gratings in the area are under a samecondition, a center wavelength of all fiber Bragg gratings in the areachanges with the temperature, a spectrum of all fiber Bragg gratings aresuperimposed into the overall regional spectrum, and the overallregional spectral shape is similar to that of a single fiber Bragggrating while a peak intensity is in times the peak intensity of thesingle fiber Bragg grating, further, the overall regional spectrum showsan overall movement; feature 2: when an area of only the single fiberBragg grating in the area changes, the single fiber Bragg grating isrecorded as FBG #n, a spectrum of FBG #n gradually separates from theoverall retional spectrum and moves toward a long wavelength direction,and, further, a main peak intensity of the overall regional spectrumdrops to (m−1)/m of an overall regional spectrum peak intensity underfeature 1; feature 3, when multiple fiber Bragg gratings in the area areaffected by a same temperature and change, the overall regional spectrumshows that the main peak intensity drops to (m−x)/m of an overallregional spectral intensity under feature 1, and x is a number ofaffected fiber Bragg grating, an intensity of a side peak increases tox/m, and the intensity of the side peak moves with temperature; feature4. when multiple fiber Bragg gratings in the area change under ainfluence of different temperatures, the overall regional spectrum showsthat the main peak intensity drops to (m−x)/m of the overall regionalspectrum intensity under feature 1, x is the number of affected fiberBragg gratings, and a shape of side peaks changes with the temperatureof each fiber Bragg grating, a width of the spectrum of the overallregion represents the size of a temperature gradient of the fiber Bragggrating in the area, and an intensity distribution of the side peaks isrelated to the number of fiber Bragg gratings on different temperaturegradients; the data processing mechanism in S5 comprising followingsteps: S141, a system initialization: maintaining, all fiber Bragggratings in the identical ultra-weak fiber Bragg grating sensor networkat a same reference temperature C, then obtaining a maximum value of theoverall regional spectrum of each area and a corresponding wavelength asreference value of the system, the maximum value of the overall regionalspectrum is denoted as M_(i), and the corresponding wavelength of M_(i)is denoted as λ_(i), where i represents a ith area, obtaining a sidelobeintensity on both sides of the regional spectrum, recording a leftsidelobe intensity as S_(Left), and a right sidelobe intensity asS_(Right), recording a wavelength λ_(Left_i) corresponding to anintensity of a leftmost sg times S_(Left) of the overall regionalspectrum and a wavelength λ_(Right_i), corresponding to the intensity ofa rightmost sg times S_(Right) of the overall regonal spectrum as acalibration value of the system. the value of sg is based on thesystem's calibration value; S102, obtaining the maximum value MAX of theoverall regional spectrum of area i and a wavelength λ corresponding toMAX when the system is running in real time, and comparing MAX withM_(i); region if MAX and M_(i) are equal, the overall regional spectrumof area i belonging to feature 1, and a highest temperature value ofarea i is recorded as T_(i), Ti=C+k*(λ−λ_(i)), and k is atemperature/wavelength coefficient of fiber Bragg grating; if MAX andM_(i) are not equal, proceeding to S103; S103, determining whether themaximum MAXof the overall regional spectrum of the area i satisfiesMAX≥(m−1)/m*M_(i); if MAX≥(m−1)/m*M_(i), executing S104; if equatorMAX≥(m−1)//m*M_(i) is not satisfied, then traversing a spectrum data ofthe whole area, finding two peak points MAX_(L) and MAX_(R), andexecuting S105; S104, comparing the wavelength λ corresponding to MAXwith λ_(i); if λ and λ_(i) are equal, then the overall regional spectrumof area i belonging to feature 2, and the highest temperature value ofarea i: T_(i)=C+k*(λ_(Right)−λ_(Right_i)), λ_(Right) is the wavelengthat sg times S_(Right) intensity on a far right side of the overallregional spectrum; if λ and λ_(i) are not equal, the overall regionalspectrum of area i belonging to feature 4, and the highest temperaturein area i is T_(i)=C+k*(λ_(Right)−λ_(Right_i)), the temperature value ofother fiber Bragg grating is C+k*(λ−λ_(i)); S105, determining whether asum of intensities of the two peak points MAX_(L) and MAX_(R) is equalto M_(i); if MAX_(L) and MAX_(R) is equal to M_(i), the overall regionalspectrum of area i belongs to feature 3, and fiber Bragg gratings inarea i are divided into two groups, fiber Bragg gratings in each groupare affected by the same temperature and the number of fiber Bragggratings in each group is m*MAX_(L)/(MAX_(L)+MAX_(R)) andm*MAX_(R)/(MAX_(L)+MAX_(R)), obtaining the wavelength λ_(L) and λ_(R)corresponding to the two peak points MAX_(L) and MAX_(R), and thetemperature information of the two groups of fiber Bragg gratings inarea i are respectively: T_(L)=C+k*(λ_(L)−λ_(i)),T_(R)=C+k*(λ_(R)−λ_(i)); if MAX_(L) and MAX_(R) is not equal to M_(i),the overall reigonal spectrum of area i belonging to feature 4, thehighest temperature of area i is C+k*(λ_(Right)−λ_(Right_i)), and alowest temperature is C+k*(λ_(Left)−λ_(Left_i)), λ_(Left) is thewavelength at sg times S_(Right) intensity at the leftmost side of thespectrum.
 2. The optical fiber grating sensing method applied tosmall-scale fire source monitoring according to claim 1, wherein a valuerange of ΔL in the S1 is from 8 cm to 20 cm.